汰

Translingual

Han character

汰 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水大戈 (EKI), four-corner 3413₀, composition ⿰氵太)

Derived characters

• 㳲

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 607, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17160
• Dae Jaweon: page 1001, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1560, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6C70

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		汰
alternative forms		汏 汱 溙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (大) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
馱	*daːl, *daːds
大	*daːds, *daːds
忕	*tʰaːds, *daːds, *djads
太	*tʰaːds
汰	*tʰaːds
汏	*daːds, *tʰaːd
軑	*daːds, *deːds
釱	*daːds, *deːds
达	*tʰeːds
杕	*deːds

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tài (tai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taai³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thài / tāi / thōa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tài
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tài
    • Wade–Giles: tʻai⁴
    • Yale: tài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tay
    • Palladius: тай (taj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: taai³
    • Yale: taai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: tai³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːi̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thài
    • Tâi-lô: thài
    • Phofsit Daibuun: taix
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰai⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰai¹¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /tʰai²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāi
    • Tâi-lô: tāi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dai
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tai²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thōa
    • Tâi-lô: thuā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toa
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰua²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰua⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰua³³/

Note:

• thài/tāi - literary;
• thōa - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: thajH

Rime
Character	汰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	他蓋切
Baxter	thajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑiH/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑiH/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰajH/
Li Rong	/tʰɑiH/
Wang Li	/tʰɑiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tài
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taai3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤa[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰaːds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	汰
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dài
Middle Chinese	‹ dajH ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁa[t]-s/
English	wave
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	汰
Reading #	1/1
No.	1938
Phonetic component	大
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	泰
Old Chinese	/*tʰaːds/
Notes	見左傳荀子

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 汰

1. to rinse; to wash away
2. to discard; to eliminate through competition or selection

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02147

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Japanese

Kanji

汰

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. scour, wash out

Readings

• Go-on: たい (tai)
• Kan-on: たい (tai)
• Kan’yō-on: た (ta, Jōyō)
• Kun: おごる (ogoru, 汰る); にごる (nigoru, 汰ごる); よなげる (yonageru, 汰げる); ゆる (yuru, 汰る)

Compounds

• 沙(さ)汰(た) (sata)

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Korean

Hanja

汰 • (tae) (hangeul 태, revised tae, McCune–Reischauer t'ae, Yale thay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 汰 (thảy, thải, thãi, thái, thẩy, thay)

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Compounds

1. 淘汰 đào thải (thái)
2. 沙汰 sa thải (thái)

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville